The National
Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) has announced a change in the
scheduled roll-out of the next generation of the Advanced Weather Interactive
Processing System (AWIPS) software package. Operational testing of the AWIPS
II package is now planned to extend from January through summer of 2011, and
deployment of AWIPS II to the National Weather Service's National Centers is
now planned for the fourth quarter of 2011. NCEP expects to make AWIPS II
available to the Unidata community during Winter of 2011/2012.
The change in
schedule will allow Raytheon Technical Services (the contractor migrating the
core AWIPS functionality to the AWIPS II architecture) to address any
outstanding issues. The change also gives the AWIPS II development team at NCEP
the opportunity to ensure that all existing National Centers AWIPS (NAWIPS)
functionality including NMAP2, NWX, NTRANS and NSHARP is included in the AWIPS
II application before the initial deployment.
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